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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

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Life, Photography, Art
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Birth of Tragedy”, p.4, Courier Corporation

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

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Strength, Stronger, Doe

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

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Winning, Power, Giving

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

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Morning, Book, Reading

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

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Smooth, Expertise

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

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Men

To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

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Stupid, Weather, Wish
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.89, Friedrich Nietzsche

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

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Hate, Miscellaneous, Maxims
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.52, Penguin

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

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I Love Him
"The Portable Nietzsche".

Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.

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Book, Hands, Would Be

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

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Power, Growth, Survival
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.37, Friederich Nietzsche

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

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Long, Unhappy, Way

The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

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Christian, Recovery, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.495, Vintage

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

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Dark, Men, Clouds
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

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Evil, Want, Claws
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.144, Penguin

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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Men, Mind, Together

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

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Dream, Rights, Socialism
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

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Philosophical, Stupidity, Purpose

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

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Men, Democracy, Equal

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

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Two, Giving, Genius
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.374, Modern Library

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

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Philosophical, Philosopher, Language

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

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Wish, Looks, Existentialism

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

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Art, Sight, Depends
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1979). “Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's”, Humanities Pr

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

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People, Effort, Gains
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Long, Path, Never Forget

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